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Dying into Safe Hands
It’s hard to say something consoling in the face of death, even when the person who died lived a full life and died in the best of circumstances. It’s especially
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The Single Life
The universe works in pairs. From the atoms to the human species, generativity is predicated on union with another. Happiness, it would seem, is also predicated on that. So where
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The Academy and the Pew – A Strained Relationship between Theology and Catechesis
There has always been an innate and healthy tension between theology and catechesis, between what’s happening in theology departments in universities and the church pew. Theologians and bishops are often
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Saint or Sinner?
What are we ultimately, saints or sinners? What’s deepest inside us, goodness or selfishness? Or, are we dualists with two innate principles inside us, one good and one evil, in
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In His Own Words
Many of us, I suspect, have heard snippets of an interview that Pope Francis did for a series of Jesuit publications, including the USA magazine, America, where, among other things,
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A Lesson from the Road
Several years ago, Hollywood produced a movie about the famous Camino walk in Spain. Entitled The Way, it chronicles the story of a father whose son was killed in an
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On Not Faking Humility
It’s hard not to fake humility; yet, seemingly, we need to do just that. For instance, some of the sayings of Jesus on humility seem to raise more questions than
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Disappearing Roots
“Home is where we start from.” T.S. Eliot wrote that and it describes an experience that can be felt both as a freedom and as a heartache. I cite my
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The Slow, Imperceptible March of Goodness
God writes straight with crooked lines. That axiom sounds clever, but is there real truth or depth to it? Can good ever really arise out of evil? Do love, truth,
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-slow-imperceptible-march-of-goodness/
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The Value of Atheists
In his monumental study of atheism, Michael Buckley suggests that atheism is invariably a parasite that feeds off bad religion. It feeds off bad religion, picks on bad religion, and